St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06
!. THE new CAR HEATER.
An Invention of Il. II. Young Exhibited
Before Very Large Party Yes
terday Afternoon.
II Works Like a Charm and Shows That
It Cannot Possibly Cause
a Fire.
By a Blast Of Air the Stove Fire and
the Lamps Are Extinguished
/ Instantly.

The fact that large number of peo-
pie lost their lives last winter, and dur
ing previous winters, by burning to
death in railroad accidents. where the
tipping over of the stoves set fire to the
cars, has become so prominent lately
and nearly ever newspaper in the land
has attacked the death-dealing stove
and advocated different methods of pre-
venting such accidents. But, as usual,
it remained for Minneapolis man to
solve the problem as to how railway
cars could be thoroughly heated with
out endangering the lives of the passen-
gers in case the car tipped over or met
with an accident. II. NJ. Young, famil-
iarly known as BRIG" Young,
formerly an engineer in the
fire department, is the man who
has invented this stove, and it bids fair
to make him independently rich. He
has associated with him w. F. Steele,
ex-member of the legislature, and the
two propose to push the invention for
all there is in it. This new heater is
known as the Peerless safety car heater,
and is really an automatic device for
heating the cars and extinguiShing the
lights and fire in seconds time. 1t
has already been tested by many promi-
nent railroad men, and has been pro-
nounced all that is claimed for it. In
response to an invitation from Messrs.
Steele and Young, large party as
sembled at the $500" depot yesterday
afternoon and took a special train, on
which test of this new heater was
made. The party consisted of J.eF.
Drake, St. Paul; W. E. Steele, w. M.
Bracket, Aid. L'Herault, j. F. Peter
son, Aid. Barrow S, Col. Hans Mattson,
Aid. E. Cole, Aid. Cooley. George Sea-
ton. Charles Coruman. WV. Sly, Frank
Moody, Col. w. M. Glenn, Louis Duens-
ing, A.G. Leighton, Andrew Bergstrom,
F. Weeks, G. l.. Cove, Mr.. Williams, of
the A. d. T. company; John Mcconnell,
Louis Runge, Aid. Nichols, u. I. Nor
rison and many others. There were
three cars, beside the one in which the
test was to be made, which was on the
end. Into this car the party climbed,
and at 8 30 the train pulled out. The
device was most carefully inspected by
all present, who reserved decision
until the test had been made. The in
vention is really hydro-carbon heater.
The stOvepipe is an upright cylinder,
fourteen inches in diameter and four
and half feet high. The tank in which
is the fuel is on the outside of the car,
and contains about thirteen gallons.
The heating is all done by hot water, in
this way: The reservoir in the top
of the stove is filed with salt
fwaetr, and Theoretically sealed. Pipes
connecting with this reservoir and all
through the car, under the seats, and
through these pipes the hot water is
forced by air pressure. it taking about
fifty minutes to make one circuit
Us, it takes fifty minutes for the water in
the reservoir to make the circuit of the
pipe, something over 800 feet. and on re-
turning be reheated at the stove. The
fuel, which may be crude petroleum.
naptha or gasoline, runs from the tank
outside the car into the stove by series
of pipes. In the stove is the generator,
where the hydro-carbOn is created. The
stove itself. with the attachments
thereto, is really the most interesting
thing in the invention. As stated above.
this Stove is about four and One-half
feet in hight and fourteen inches in di-